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Arunas A. Chesonis
Arunas A. Chesonis serves as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of PAETEC Holding Corp., and is responsible for the vision, leadership, and direction of the company. Since being founded by Mr. Chesonis in 1998, PAETEC has achieved remarkable growth with 2008 annual revenues of $1.6 billion and serving nearly 47,000 businesses in all 50 states.
He has developed and fostered a unique, employee-focused culture PAETEC based on four core values: a Caring Culture, Open Communication, Unmatched Service and Personalized Solutions, and has co-written the business book, It Isn't Just Business, It's Personal. As a result, in 2009 the company was named one of the top ten best large companies to work for in New York State by NYS-SHRM and received the national American Business Ethics Award sponsored by the Society for Financial Service Professionals.
Mr. Chesonis began his career at Rochester Telephone Corporation and went on to serve as President of ACC Corp. and led the company until it was purchased by TCG/ATT in 1998. He's received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, the Herbert W. Vanden Brul Entrepreneurial Award by the College of Business at Rochester Institute of Technology and was elected to the Rochester Business Hall of Fame.
He holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an MBA from the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business at the University of Rochester, and an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University of Rochester. He is co-director of the MIT Sustainable Energy Revolution Program (SERP), and serves as trustee at the Harley School, Rochester Institute of Technology and the University of Rochester.
He also serves as a husband and father to wife Pam, and children Adam, Erik, Tessa and Emma Chesonis, for which the company was named by founding employees.
